Studio: Rising Sun Pictures
Job Opening: Mid-Senior Compositors
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Create complex multi-layered composites from mixed sources that set the creative and technical benchmarks for your team.
- Work with your lead to implement sound production workflows, and supervise more junior team members if required.
- Lead sequences or small teams from turnover & Look Dev to delivery as required.
- Interpret needs, schedules, briefs and feedback, setting priorities and demanding timeliness of yourself and others.
- Create Nuke scrips that integrate efficiently into the compositing pipeline.
- Work in a manner that allows other compositing team members to pick up your work if necessary.
- Use your well-developed understanding of colourspaces of film and digital formats, and expert eye, to achieve stunning
and complex composites. - Work within RSP’s colour pipeline, adhering to the colour workflow as outlined by the project.
- Adapt your comp setups as the brief evolves, diagnosing and resolving any issues with your own Nuke script.
- Review and QC your work for internal and external delivery ensuring it hits creative and technical notes.
- Ensure visual continuity is upheld across shots and sequences.
- Work with lighting team members as necessary in order to meet compositing objectives.
- Develop and maintain a working relationship with 2d and 3d artists and technicians.
- Contribute to creative and technical conversations, with a view to raising the quality level of the final image.
- Manage your workload. Advise your lead/head of dept of any obstacles which may affect delivery quality, timeliness or budget.
- Promote a collaborative and enjoyable workplace influencing morale, fostering purposeful discussions and a positive work ethic.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum 5-7 years creating high-end composites for live-action feature films.
- Expert knowledge of Nuke and a thorough understanding of the math behind comp operations, especially Nuke scripting
and tool development. - Utilitarian knowledge of other discipline software such as Maya, Houdini and industry standard tracking software.
- Superior level of attention to detail and a strong understanding of colour theory, LUT’S, composition and both film
and digital capture formats. - Real-world understanding of physics, math, proportion, depth, light and colour.
- Expert organisational skills, maintaining a calm and professional demeanour in a delivery-focused work environment.
- Technical and creative problem-solving with a can-do mindset.
- Working knowledge of the VFX pipeline and entire post-production process, including interdepartmental dependencies
and hand over processes.
